Constitution Alters Government Structure
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH (Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of five articles dealing with the new constitution that students will vote on Wednesday and Thursday.)
When the convention delegates began rewriting the constitution, they decided to revise all aspects of student government. The first major change is contained in Article I:
“The name of the Association under this Constitution shall be tlie University of Southern California Student Association. For purposes of abbreviation. the same shall be known as the SCA (Southern California Association).”
The name was changed to erase any bad connotations connected with the previous student governing’ body.
Article II of the Constitution provides “a framework of organization for the SCA, enabling it to function to promote the welfare of tlie student body/’
This is accomplished by a threefold statement of primary functions:
“1. To provide an official channel for the
free exchange of ideas and opinions between the administration, faculty and student body of the University;
“2. To facilitate the programming of projects and activities tending to enrich the social, cultural and educational aspects of university life; and “3. To provide the educational experience of self-government for the entire student body and to provide for the development and training of mature and responsible student leaders.”
Article III defines a full-time student as “any student enrolled for a total of twelve or more units of credits.” No distinction is made anywhere in the document between graduate and undergraduate students.
The Council is given the power to implement jts threefold purpose in Article IV: the constitution insures the welfare of the students primarily.
First, it makes student government the voice of the students in expressing the opinions of the students in dealings with the faculty and administration.
Next, it specifies that student government be a programming body through which the needs of the students will be fulfilled.
Finally, it creates a government which offers all students a learning experience.
The SCA Council is thus a body assigned specific duties which were not so definitely enumerated in the ASSC Constitution.
Section Two of Article IV states that the SCA Council may not abridge “the freedoms of speech, assembly, press or religion . . . nor practice or sanction any discrimination according to race, color or sex.”
Under Section Three, any bill approved by a majority of the Council becomes law when signed by the president of the university.
Any money bill approved by a majority of the Council becomes law when the SCA treasurer certifies that funds appropriated by the bill exist
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and are available and when the bill is certified by the president of the university.
Section Four lists the excutive officers: SCA president, SCA vice-president in charge of student activities, SCA vice-president in charge of student life, AMS president, AWS president and the four class presidents.
The designations of the two vice-presidents was decided upon to allow for tlie compact functioning of the governmental body.
The student activities vice-president will head the Student Activities Cabinet and will coordinate the activities of the various student committees (such as Songfest. Homecoming), in addition to substituting for the president in his absence.
The student life vice-president will be in charge of matters relating to student welfare and well-being (such as Student and Alumni Affairs).
The vice-presidents, AWS and AMS presidents and class presidents each have one vote on the Council. The president may vote only to break or create a tie.
Other non-voting members sitting on the
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1965
No. S3
Chemist
Granted
$17,500
Dr. Howard S. Taylor, associate professor of chemis try, has received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship for basic research in chemistry.
He will use the $17,500 grant for research on the quantum theory of molecular and atomic processes.
“We will try to explain certain complicated problems involving the scattering of electrons off atoms and molecules,” he said. “Our work will have definite applications in space projects.”
Promoted in Fall Dr. Taylor, 29, who joined the USC chemistry faculty in 1961, and was promoted to associate professor last fall, is among 91 young scientists in U. S. and Canadian universities to be named Sloan Research Fellows.
Candidates do not apply for Sloan Research Fellowships but are nominated by their department chairmen or other scientists familiar with the nominee's research and potential.
Dr. Taylor took his undergraduate training at Columbia University where he was graduated summa cum laude with distinction in chemistry in 1956. He held a Boese scholarship, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Lambda Upsilon and was a member of Crew, the undergraduate chemistry society.
Explored Molecules He received his Ph.D. from the University of California. Berkeley, in 1959. His doctoral research on the quantum theory of small diatomic molecules was directed by
9 Ministers Protest Negro Maltreatment
POISON PREVENTION—U niversity Pres. Norman Topping signs a proclamation declaring this National Poison Preven-
tion Week, which is being observed across the nation. Pharmacy major Harold Washington witnesses ceremony.
NATIONAL OBSERVANCE
USC Lures Over 1,000
Counselors
Well over 1,000 high school and college counselors have requested applications for USC's Summer Counseling and Guidance Institute. The institute will be held June 21 jto August 28.
Begun in 1958 when a National Defense Education Act authorized USC to conduct it, the program dealt solely with secondary educational counseling.
Revision in Act
A revision in the National Defense Education Act, however, now provides training for college counseling.
The program also allows graduate students to attend school as full-time students and still spend more time with their studies.
USC
Sent
Petition to LBJ
EARL F. CARNES
. . . session director
Blood Total Should Top 500 Pints
By NANCY PERRYMAN
USC religious leaders sent a petition to President Johnson Friday protesting the maltreatment of Selma, Ala. Negroes.
Plans tor the petition were outlined Wednesday evening by Rev. Charles Doak. Presbyterian minister, at the Campus Forum. —
“The plan was eagerly re- theirs — the right to vote — ceived by the students who and they are beaten and were present at the forum,” harassed, we should be ap-Rev. Doak said.	palled.
“We just reached a point “If education has not done where we felt that something the job, it must be done jhad to be done in a respons- through legislature which ible way to arouse more con- definitely will be enforced,” cern for fellow human beings, said Ben Cohen. Hillel direc-Although it is a small step. tor.
it is a step in the right direc- Velma Tinkler, head of the tion.” Rev. Alvin Rudisill. YWCA, said. “There should Lutheran minister, said.
Ministers’ Petition
Three hundred
be an opportunity for concerned people on cnmpus to
Nine ministers endorsed express their concern, the petition which read:
“Silences are very uncom-
“We are anDalled bv the fortable: especially when one , . , f > ,, . wants to express himself and students maltreatment of our fellow ____________u._ .,
, _	. , . ------ --------------------.	0 , no avenue is open to him.
’The pressures of haying signed-up for the Red Cross American Citizens in ^elma. Urged Intervention
President Topping Urges Prevention of Poisoning
Dr. Norman Topping has causes of accidental poison- and inquisitiveness. If they proclaimed this National Poi- ings. Carelessness, however, see something of interest, | son Prevention Week on cam- is the main cause for acci- c h i 1 d r e n will grab it with
is no longer available to students. the ministers will co-
I outside work to do have been Blood Drive by Friday, the Alabama and we urgently re j minimized,” Dr. Eugene B. student Activities Office has ; Doughtie, director for the announced, summer session, stated. ^ I pl0ger Rosendahl, Knights A nine month session is president in charge of the	"human °Perate anc^ suPPort an>’ peti-
*	tion urging federal interven-
tion in Selma, Doak artflounc-ed.
The Human Relations Com-
., . .. , , ,	Although the petition spon-
quest that the federal gov- , , “ ^	\
ee Z, *. sored by the cammis pastors ernment exert every effort to . , J______ ____.,:L1.
see to it that all governmental agencies in Alabama
j held during the academic drive, said this number does P."*?* *nd secn% year for beginning counsel- no^ jnciU(je living group lists.
Participants need not pre(jicted a total much
rights of every citizen,” Interested students i
have any previous counseling j r than Jast
experience to enroll.
Summer Program
year s
50Q lating petitions succeeded in
i contributors.
“I am confident this year’s
pus. He read the proclama- dental poisonings.
tion at a meeting in his of fices Friday.
The president urged stu- report, the problem of acci- adds-
r	ivf7155’ ic y‘ dents to “participate actively dental poisoning is a growing
ior was 3, i\ 3.Lion3.i oOicncG
Foundation pre-doctoral fel-j
low, a University Fellow in*
their hands. And what is in a during the summer.
A second program is held ,, .	...	f ,, tion, Doak said.
, 1	enthusiasm will push the
gathering approximately 130'mittee and the Trojan Demo-names in support of the peti- cratjc Club are circulating a
similar petition.
According to the associa-: child s hand usually ends up
|in the educational and in- one. The majority of the poi-structive programs in this soning victims are children
______________Dr. Earl F. Carnes, direction's Poison Prevention Week;in. ,their mouths, the report or the academic session,
said USC is not the only uni-Some poisonings are caused; versity to sponsor such a pro-by absorption through the gram.
blood drive total much higher,” he said.
Sign-up Sheets
The petition, which was “It is important t h% t as sent to the President and to much pressure as possible be iSenators George Murphy and applied as soon as possible,” Thomas Kuchel, was the re- Doak said.
The ministers will schedule
skin. Infants still in the Its total cost is covered by
Knights and Spurs will pick , of convers4tion a up fraternity and soronty ,hecampus pa3tora
chemistry and received a Fulbright fellowship which he was unable to accept.
under five years of age. icrawling stage are most sus-jthe act. This includes salar
The report blamed the sta- ceptible to this type of poi- ied professors, equipment and
(weekly stipends.
Peace Corps To Recruit Volunteers
area of public health.”
By order of the United States Congress, the third tisties on children’s curiosity soning. week of March is set aside every year as National Poison Prevention Week. President j Johnson, Governor Brown; and Mayor Yorty have all signed proclamations.
500,000 Poisonings More than 500,000 children; are accidentally poisoned eachj
sign-up sheets for the drive after chapter meeting to-
Dr. Frank Baxter Cuts Grid Record
year, resulting in approxi-j
Peace Corps Week at USC mately 500 deaths' has been designated the week In his proclamation, Dr. of March 28-April 3 by Presi- Topping asked the faculty,
dent Norman Topping.
administrative personnel, and
Peace Corps staff members student body to join the na from Washington, D.C., and tional effort to reduce the returned volunteers will death,and injury due to acci-speak to students during the Cental poisoning.
week. They will appeal primarily to juniors and seniors who are interested and eligible.
Interviews Scheduled
Interviews will be schedul- wary ed. Written tests will also be *nSs-given.
Speakers will be available
Leonora Reyes, secretary of the School of Pharmacy Student Body, appeared on KWKW - TY yesterday. She urged parents to be more of accidental poison-
Materials Displayed
An exhibit of poison pre-
for campus groups, and a vent ion materials will be on movie, “Mission of Discov- display in 203 Science at noon ery,” will be shown upon re- Wednesday. Pamphlets and quest.	printed literature will be dis-
Potential volunteers must tributed. be United States citizens. The American Pharmaceu-1 Married couples are eligible tical Association found im-if both qualify and have no proper storage and labeling dependents under 18 years of medicines and household;
products to be one of the,
REMEMBER THE BLOOD DRIVE—Trojan
Knights (from left) Bill Scott, Roger
Rosendahl, Rick Takagaki and Rick Mal-
lory display publicity and award for the Red Cross Blood Drive. The Blood-mobile will be on campus Tuesday.
a sympathy rally for consti-“We as human beings tutional rights on campus the should be concerned about same day as the next march other human beings. In our in Selma. The rally will be Rosendahl urged all living own country when people try held at noon in front of Tom-groups to complete their lists to get what is constitutionally my Trojan, by that time since the Blood-mobile will arrive on campus tomorrow.
Dormitory sign-ups are; being handled by individual floor counselors. Tables have also been set up in the Grill,! in front of Student Union and outside Founders Hall.
Multiple Credit “A big difference from last year’s drive is that blood-giv-ers can credit their giving to more than one organization,”!
Rosendahl said.
Members of a fraternity who live in a dorm and belong to a campus military unit can credit all three organizations in trophy competition.
IFC Trophy The Knights Trophy will be awarded to the organization doing the best all-around job in the estimation of the Knights. Three other trophies will also be given.
The Interfraternity Council; is sponsoring one for the I fraternity that gives the most' blood.
The Red Cross will give; two trophies, one for the percentage winner and one for the numerical winner. All campus organizations are eligible for these two awards. |
Dr. Frank Baxter, emeritus professor of English and noted Shakespearean lecturer, is now a commentator in a record album of USC’s 1964 football season.
Dr. Baxter, the Sonny Liston of Elizabethan drama, a football commentator?
“He’s tied to USC like Tommy Troian,” said LP producer Stanley Musgrove. “Illogical, but just great. We’re indeed happy he said yes.”
Kelly’s Excerpts
The album is released by Argyle Enterprises and is entitled “Highlights of USC’s 1964 Football Season.” It is edited from Tom Kelly’s KNX/CBS broadcasts of last year’s ten games, and includes commentary by Dr. Baxter.
The idea for the pro-
ject came to Musgrove and film producer-direct-or Robert Wise immediately after USC’s 20-17 “miracle win” over unbeaten, untied and first-ranked Notre Dame. They had seen the game as guests of Dr. Norman Topping.
Records Excitement
“We both agreed that that kind of drama and excitement just had to be preserved.” Wise said.
Dr. Baxter was invited to do the commentary after Wise and Musgrove heard the first rough cut of Kelly’s broadcasts and decided to go all-out for the interpolation.
Album liner notes are by Braven Dyer. He traces USC’s emergence to gridiron fame, beginning with the Trojans’ Rose Bowl win over Penn State in 1923.